TELEGRAM TO THE RODNIKI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE[1]

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26. XII. 1918

RodnikiExecutive CommitteeRodniki, Ivanovo-Voznesensk GuberniaCopy to the Cheka

Immediatelyunseal the store-room and living-room of
Pyotr Ilyich Surkov in Kutilovo village. Report the namesof those who did the sealing and the explanation of their
action, why they are requisitioning books. Wire execution.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Leninwrote this telegram in connection with a complaint reaching
him from P. I. Surkov, a former member of the Social–
Democratic group in the Third Duma, against the decision of the
Extraordinary Commission of the town of Rodniki (Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Gubernia) to confiscate his library. Surkov reported that while
objecting to the transfer of the library to Rodniki, he agreed to
hand over the books for teaching young people in his own village.
Regarding Surkov’s library, see also documents 228, 229 and 235
in this volume.